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ADDITION TO THE DRAFT RESOLUTION 
OF M. M. LITVINOV ON INVITING A 
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MINSK GROUP TO 
THE III CONGRESS OF THE RSDLP 1
[27 April 1905]

Minsk Group *

The Congress, in accordance with the conclusion of the M[andate] Commission, grants ** 
the Minsk Group the right to delegate [a representative] with consultative vote and instructs the Bureau, if possible, to notify it of this by telegraph.

1 abstained
against 
adopted

1 On 27 April 1905 at the fourth session of the III Congress of the RSDLP, held in London, the report of the Credentials Commission was discussed. During the discussion, a statement from the Minsk group of the North-Western Committee was read to the Organizational Committee for the convocation of the Congress, requesting that it be given the opportunity to send its own delegate to the III Congress of the Party with consultative vote. Having examined the statement of the Minsk group, which stood on the point of view of the majority, the Credentials Commission proposed to the Congress to permit it to send its own delegate to the Congress. On the basis of this conclusion, the Minsk group was granted the right to be represented at the Congress. Its delegate was G. L. Shklovsky.

M. M. Litvinov — Party member since 1898, Bolshevik. At the III Congress of the RSDLP he was a delegate with decisive vote from the Riga Committee of the RSDLP.

In his remarks during the discussion of the question of inviting a representative of the Minsk group to the Congress, Litvinov reported that during his stay in Minsk, individual members of the Minsk group, fearing a refusal from the North-Western Committee, which stood on conciliationist positions, expressed a desire to send their own delegate to the III Congress, even if only with consultative vote.

In connection with this, it appears, this draft resolution was written by him.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE NEWSPAPER "THE TIMES" ON THE CONFERENCE 
OF ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ZEMSTVOS 
IN RUSSIA 1
[Not earlier than 7 June 1905]

The Times correspondent reports that 135 elected representatives from the zemstvos were present at the conference. 83 voted in favour of direct elections to the lower chamber of the future par[liament]

* These words were crossed out by V. I. Lenin.

** In the draft resolution it read: "The Credentials Commission proposes to the Congress to grant." This version was corrected by V. I. Lenin.